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Osman's Dream: The History of the Ottoman Empire
by Caroline Finkel
Basic

$35.00
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The Ottoman Empire was one of the largest and most influential empires in world history. In this magisterial work Finkel lucidly recounts the epic story of the Ottoman Empire from its origins in the thirteenth century through its destruction on the battlefields of World War I.

Death's Door: Modern Dying and the Ways We Grieve—A Cultural Study
by Sandra M. Gilbert
W.W. Norton

$29.95
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Prominent critic, poet, and memoirist Gilbert explores our relationship to death though literature, history, poetry, and societal practices. Exploring expressions of faith, burial customs, photographs, poems, and memoirs, Gilbert examines both the changelessness of grief and the changing customs that mark contemporary mourning.

Hiding from Humanity: Disgust, Shame, and the Law
by Martha C. Nussbaum
Princeton University Press

$19.95
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This powerful and elegantly written book, by one of America's most influential philosophers, presents a critique of the role that shame and disgust play in our individual and social lives and, in particular, in the law.

How the Pro-Choice Movement Saved America: Sex, Virtue, and the Way We Live Now
by Cristina Page
Basic

$24.00
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This book tells the frightening truth about the movement to curtail family planning and change the culture of sex across America, and what's at stake for all of us if it succeeds. “This is a well-researched and thoughtful look at the politics behind reproductive issues and the implications for all Americans, whatever their position on abortion.”—Booklist

Nan Goldin
by Diarmaid MacCulloch
Phaidon

$24.95
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Recognized internationally for her intimate and compelling images, the American photographer Goldin is most famous for her Ballad of Sexual Dependency photographs. This book documents the development of her work through a chronologically presented series of fifty-five images and includes an introductory essay on her work.

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